Abstract

Many of the industries involved in safety related or safety critical systems development use Safety Cases to record and present their rationale for believing that their system is acceptably safe. Such Safety Cases are costly to produce and represent a significant investment of effort. Increasing trends to reuse components - evident strongly in the communications domain - has prompted practitioners to consider the reuse of relevant Safety Case claims previously. This paper reports the results of a case study examining the pre-requisites of, and scope for, industrial and corporate reuse strategies and whether current tools and techniques would support such an approach.